Does anyone know of any fictional characters with AS?

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24 is the one show that my husband and I will sit and watch together.

I always say that Chloe's face reminds me of a cartoon character. I don't know why? I guess she always has that serious look on her face and doesn't smile that much.

I loved it last night when she pulled the gun on the guy because he wouldn't let her do the programming the way she wanted to. That was classic!! !!

What about Ephram or Andy Brown from Everwood?

I count four from "The Office": Michael, Dwight, and Erin, all representing different stereotypes.

Michael is kind of the oblivious aspie who is unaware of how annoying he can be.
Dwight is like the self-aware aspie who has no desire to change himself, believing himself to be superior to everyone, including his own boss at times.
Erin is the self-aware aspie who tries hard not to annoy people, and is eager to please. There's also a side to her that makes characters want to sort of take her under her wing(Kelly, Angela, Andy).
I'm also inclined to believe Andy is one, due to his obsession with acapella singing(and music in general), anger problems, and the fact that he accidentally ended up dating a high school girl even though he's in his 30's.

The one kid on parenthood

I take a pretty rigid view on this sort of thing. So people like Christopher John Francis Boone (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Adam Raki (Adam), Donald Morton and Isabelle Sorenson (Mozart and the Whale) are the only people that I would definitively list.

One of the important things, in my view, is that having an Autism Spectrum Disorder is not the same thing as merely presenting Aspie traits. For a condition to qualify as a disorder, it must have a clinically significant impact.

Within that context, a character like Gregory House (House, M.D.) is a borderline case. Clearly there are clinically signficant issues, but the question is open as to what is causing his presentation. I'm not sold on the autism spectrum.

It is possible to list dozens, if not hundreds of characters who present some trait or another. But to qualify as an Aspie, one must be more than merely quirky.

Personally, I think Moss is the aspie, while Roy has ADHD. Jen is NT, but rather neurotic in general.
Can't wait for season four!

"I've got a flipping gun! I've got a mother-flipping gun!!"

I'm reading a book called The Family Man by Elinor Lipman, and a character is described as "Socially awkward--even Aspergian." It's a minor character and I'm not sure if she really intended him to have Aspergers or not.

I was thinking about this a few days ago actually. In my opinion I think there are three categories here - characters that have AS, characters that we might be able to read as having AS and characters that may be "representative" of AS.

First group would be characters that have AS written a part of their background/personality/whatever. Possible subcategory would be a character described as having AS, but the writer did not do the research, messes up the characterisation and as such the character doesn't have AS at all.

Second would be ones that act in ways asscociated with AS, but this might not be an intentional part of their character (ie: the writer wanted a "quirky" and/or "socially awkward" and the way the character was written coincides with AS). This would make up the majority of the list I suspect.

Third would be characters that probably don't have AS, but may have features that we relate to AS (intentionally or otherwise). This one is harder to explain, so I'll use examples (from Star Trek, 'cause I've seen these characters come up in this sort of discussion once before): Vulcans have difficulty making small talk with other races, difficulty picking up or predicting the emotions of others, can be very blunt in what they say etc - Data (from Star Trek: TNG) tends not to pick up social cues and colloquialisms, difficulty with empathy and picking up the emotions of others, has a hard time noticing when someone isn't interested in what he's saying or when he's giving too much detail in response to a question, etc. Difference between this and the other categories - the Vulcan behaviours were devised as a cultural feature, and Data's were intended as the features of a android lacking in "human emotions" attempting to fit in with a mostly human crew. In other words - these characters are not human and whilst they have AS like features to their personalities, they definitely do not have these features due to any disorder.

I hope that makes sense Your thoughts on this idea? Am I just overanalyzing?